Technical terms test2 answers
- 1. Match the following categories of English words with their likely language origins 1. Scientific terms such as: cerebellum, c) Latin (or possibly Greek) radius, lens 2. Words to do with administration, law b) French or French through Latin and conquest, such as: parliament, council, plea, verdict, armour, castle 3. Antiquated idioms such as ‘the straight d) The Bible or Shakespeare and narrow’, ‘a still small voice’, ‘at one fell swoop’ 4. The hundred most common words in a) Anglo-Saxon English such as: you, go, there Name the part of speech or word class of ‘brief’ in each of the following: He wrote a brief description of the event. Adjective She briefed her staff about the forthcoming meeting. Verb The solicitor picked up the brief. Noun The children were interviewed briefly. Adverb
- 2. Parse (i.e. describe each word grammatically) the following sentence: The oldest child carefully took Sam’s discarded toys and placed them in his own toybox. The Definite article oldest Adjective child Common noun carefully Adverb took Verb Sam’s Proper noun discarded Adjective toys Collective noun and Conjunction placed Verb them Pronoun in Preposition his Possessive pronoun own Adjective/modifier toybox Noun